Standards & Accreditation Officer
Job Summary:
- To ensure that the institution meet the appropriate and acceptable standards of quality nationally and internationally.
Job Description:
- Support all departments/units to comply with the national and international regulatory /accreditation processes to ensure compliance with the accreditation standards.
- Provide staff training on Quality standards.
- Tracks deadlines for all regulatory/accreditation activities, and assures all responses are on target to meet deadline, or escalated through necessary reporting structure to meet necessary compliance timeframes.
- Manages/assists with the hospital process for policy development or review, approval, dissemination, intranet posting, and archiving.
- Collaborates with Health, Safety and Risk Management units to provide strategies, tools, and approaches to achieve compliance.
- Educate hospital leadership and personnel on the benefits and risks associated with regulatory compliance in terms of value to accreditation, patient care, and public reputation.
- Work with quality internal auditors to Audit and Evaluates extent of compliance of hospital units and departments with regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Monitor the corrective action plan for closing identified non -conformities.
- Assists departments and units in assessing readiness for licensing and accreditation
- Manages all aspects of accreditation, regulatory and hospital licensure compliance which includes ensuring full documents are submitted to accreditation body on time.
- Identifies opportunities for improvements based on evidence-based practices in regulatory and accreditation compliance.
- Organize internal and external Quality Audits as required.
- Any other assignment from the supervisor/Management
Education/Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health-related field with at least 5 years’ working experience in quality related matters.
- Must be trained on ISO 9001:2015 standard.
- Training on Quality internal audit is an added advantage.
Submit Your Application
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should send their applications to recruit@tenwekhosp.org on or before 8 th August,2025 enclosing: *Resume, Cover Letter & *Statement of Faith*
